cleanness

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But wit you well there shall none attain it but by cleanness, that is pure confession.

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  1. The state or quality of being clean. Freedom from dirt, filth, or foreign or offensive matter; neatness. Cleanness of body is rightly esteemed to proceed from a modesty of manners, and from reverence. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, iv. 2.
  2. Freedom from ceremonial pollution. No scrupulous purity, none of the ceremonial cleanness which characterizes the diction of our academical Pharisees. Macaulay.
  3. Exactness; purity; justness; correctness: used of language or style. He minded only the clearness of his satire, and the cleanness of expression. Dryden, Juvenal's Satires.
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  1. from Middle English clennesse, clannesse, etc., from Anglo-Saxon clǣnnes, from clǣne, clean, + -nes, -ness: see clean, adjective, and -ness.
 

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